Psychology Consulting Capacity of High School Homeroom Teachers Strengthened

This activity is to deploy the Cooperation Agreement between the Ministry of Education and Training and Room to Read Organization to implement the School Psychological Consulting Support Program and Basic Skills Education to achieve the competency qualities specified in the 2018 General Education Program for middle and high school levels, period 2022 - 2030.

Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan, an officer of Nghe An Department of Education and Training, mentioned that according to current statistics in Vietnam, up to 95.2% of homeroom teachers rely on their own experience and personal knowledge to support students but have not been trained in psychological consulting skills or processes.

The training course aims to improve school psychology counseling capacity for homeroom teachers in high schools.

Ngan affirmed that homeroom teachers are the people closest to the students at school, who understand the circumstances of each student's family, friends, and personality. Therefore, they need to be equipped with the knowledge to recognize psychological difficulties in adolescents and then have the skills to advise their students.

The training course uses materials compiled by the Ministry of Education and Training in collaboration with the Room to Read Organization to equip participants with some basic psychological consulting skills as well as knowledge of some common psychological counseling areas in high school. Some of the main contents in this training program include counseling on preventing gender-based abuse and school violence; strengthening response and solving problems that arise in relationships with family, teachers, friends, and other social relationships; responding to impacts from social networks...

Nguyen Dieu Nuong, Country Director of Room to Read Vietnam.

According to Nguyen Dieu Nuong, National Director of Room to Read Vietnam, after completing the training course, participants will conduct training for all class teachers and administrators of 6 schools in 3 provinces in the pilot with the support of Room to Read. In addition, the program also has monthly professional support activities to help homeroom teachers apply and practice the knowledge and skills trained in their work.

“Based on evaluating the pilot results, this training content will be replicated in about 180 schools, and we hope to be integrated into the annual training and development program for homeroom teachers in the localities”, said Nguyen Dieu Nuong.

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